Hi, everybody!
This is to announce the release of PENG 2.0. PENG is an Integrated
Development Environment written in and for GPC.
PENG 2.0 is the first version released publicly. (In case you wonder
about the version number: Large parts of PENG have grown out of
another application which was developed and used for several years.
Therefore, I feel that version 2.0 is appropriate for this release.)
PENG was written completely in Pascal and created using GPC. It is
well suited for editing and compiling Pascal programs with GPC,
though its functionality is not Pascal specific, and it can just as
well be used for writing C, HTML, TeX, Texinfo, E-Mail or any other
ASCII based format. PENG was developed and tested mainly under
Linux/x86, but also under DJGPP and Solaris.
The main web site of PENG is <http://fjf.gnu.de/peng.html>. It
contains more extensive information about PENG, including the
complete documentation in HTML format, as well as download
facilities and a pointer to the PENG mailing list. The mailing list
is the recommended place for bug reports and requests about PENG.
To the beta testers: The format of the config files has not changed
since the last beta release (19991028), so you can keep using them
without changes.
Some Highlights:
* Portability. In particular, there are versions for general
terminals on Unix systems, for X11, and for DJGPP. The terminal
versions work naturally across telnet/rlogin/slogin between
systems with the same or different terminal types, and X11 is
network-transparent, anyway.
* Support for multiple windows, including editing of the same file
in several windows at the same time
* Advanced block operations, persistent and non-persistent blocks,
editable clipboard, automatic copy function
* A reader for GNU Info documentation, including support for
compressed info files
* A paragraph mode, useful for editing mail, news, TeX, HTML, etc.
* A quote protection mode for editing mail and news
* Multi-level Undo/Redo capability
* Lex highlighting
* Autosave mode
* Combines the ease of use known from some Dos IDEs with the power
of Unix environments, e.g.:
- Supports function keys (where available on the terminal) and
file selection boxes, but also file name completion with Tab;
`$' for environment variables as well as `~' and `~user' for
home directories, and all the file name wildcards like `*',
`?', `[^-]', `{,}'
- Easy search/replace capabilities, but also regular expression
searches and replacements with backreferences
- Handles files with Unix or Dos line endings on both kinds of
systems, without converting them automatically, but with the
easy possibility to convert them explicitly at any time.
- You can invoke an OS shell, but you can also suspend PENG.
- You can use control characters like Control-C for cursor
movement in PENG if you want, but PENG still reacts correctly
to external interrupt, termination or hangup signals and
saves unsaved changes whenever possible.
- Readable configuration files in text format, a global one and
per-user ones under Unix
- Simple and numbered backup files
- Lock files (compatible with vim) to prevent several editors
from editing the same file at the same time
- Easily accessible context-sensitive help, but in the same
format (GNU Info) as used by many other programs, and easily
extendable for your own tools
- PENG tools can invoke external processes (e.g., compilers),
but they can also fork them to run in the background while you
can already go on editing your files.
* Completely configurable colors. Very important. :-)
* A way to open files read-only, from the menu and the command line
* No mouse support. (-: Leaves the mouse to gpm and similar
applications.)
* Hotlist for easy access to files edited frequently
* Extensive tool scripting capabilites:
- Powerful syntax, similar to Unix shells
- User-defined variables of several types
- Many pre-defined functions for strings, regular expressions,
file names, boolean values, mathematical operations on real
and complex numbers, interaction with the user and control of
the editor and info reader
- Conditional statements
- Access to a message window, suitable for GNU standard message
format, but other message formats can be converted. An example
converter for LaTeX messages is included.
- PENG can start external processes in the background and still
receive their output. Background processes can be killed
easily. Very useful for long compilations.
- Tools can depend on the file name of the current editor and on
other conditions, to allow e.g. several versions of a similar
tool by the same name for different languages/formats.
- Tools can be executed automatically at the start or
termination of PENG.
- Many example tools, including usage of utilities like grep,
syntax macros, and the compiler invocations with hotkeys
familiar from other IDEs (for GPC and GCC and very similarly
even for LaTeX and makeinfo), all fully customizable
Have much fun with PENG,
Frank
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Hello, folks,
a new GPC snapshot is available:
ftp://agnes.dida.physik.uni-essen.de/gnu-pascal/alpha/gpc-19991030.tar.gz
As usual: Source only; nothing guaranteed.
Main changes since the last snapshot (19990813):
* Works with gcc-2.95.x.
* In preparation for a integration into GCC, most patches
to the GCC backend have been obsoleted and removed. The
remaining ones will either vanish, too, or be integrated
into GCC.
* The set-handling routines have been re-written. Set
operations are handled in the RTS and should be more
stable now.
* Some problems with packed arrays on big-endian machines
have been solved.
* `-dY' is now `--debug-source'.
* New options `--[no-]transparent-file-names'.
* ... and much more.
Have fun,
Peter
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